I have some ideas for using a histogram diff to improve content merges,
which fundamentally relies on the idea of a histogram. Since the diffs
are never displayed to the user but just used internally for merging,
the typical user preference shouldn't matter anyway, and I want to make
sure that all my testing works with this algorithm.
Granted, I don't yet know if those ideas will pan out and I haven't even
tried any of them out yet, but it's easy to change the diff algorithm in
the future if needed or wanted. For now, just set it to histogram.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@xxxxxxxxx>
---
merge-ort.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/merge-ort.c b/merge-ort.c
index f5460a8a52..df97a54773 100644
--- a/merge-ort.c
+++ b/merge-ort.c
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
#include "diffcore.h"
#include "strmap.h"
#include "tree.h"
+#include "xdiff-interface.h"
struct merge_options_internal {
struct strmap paths; /* maps path -> (merged|conflict)_info */
@@ -137,6 +138,9 @@ static void merge_start(struct merge_options *opt, struct merge_result *result)
assert(opt->priv == NULL);
+ /* Default to histogram diff. Actually, just hardcode it...for now. */
+ opt->xdl_opts = DIFF_WITH_ALG(opt, HISTOGRAM_DIFF);
+
/* Initialization of opt->priv, our internal merge data */
opt->priv = xcalloc(1, sizeof(*opt->priv));
/*
--
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